Originally posted by Thropplenoggin
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1. An inadvertent red-herring on my part really - specifically included since some contributors here are/were performers of one sort or another themselves and correspondingly sometimes perceive things through that lens.
2. Every audience member heard and felt (not really separable) the real thing, albeit that slightly different versions of it reached each of them before they then processed it in probably much more distinct ways. Meanwhile, those at home all heard a mere representation, an artifice (and usually a pretty poor one) of the real thing and one to which an unintended additional distorting layer had been added by a combination of the efforts of the engineers and producer plus pot luck.
However, you can dismiss this as being so much sloblock if you like and I might even agree with you. What you won't convince me of is that listening to a concert live, in-the-flesh, isn't fundamentally different from listening (with however much focus) to a relay (however technically brilliant, not that they usually are) of that concert. Not because of ancillary things you cited, but because it's an entirely different act and quality of experience - analagous to the difference between looking at a technically excellent photograph of Beinn Eighe and actually standing at the bottom of it. Those fortunate enough to be more insightful and have more time on their hands might be able to be more coherent on the matter than me!
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